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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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File photo: A Mickey Mantle baseball card is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, on July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Money

Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar

The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the controversial “Hand of God” goal.

4 years ago

''Radiant Baby,'' by Keith Haring, painted on the wall of his childhood bedroom. (Courtesy of the Rago/Wright auction house)
Arts & Entertainment

Radiant Baby’s room: An intimate piece of Keith Haring’s life in Kutztown will go to auction

A piece of Haring’s bedroom wall with a Radiant Baby drawing is part of a “capsule” from his childhood home in Kutztown, Pa.

4 years ago

The Allentown Art Museum is doing away with admission fees. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

The Allentown Art Museum is now free to all, every day, forever

The 88 year-old downtown institution has eliminated admission prices to become more equitable and inclusive.

4 years ago

A rider waves to approving pedestrians who stopped to watch the Philly Naked Bike Ride make its way through Center City. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Naked Bike Ride, Korn, Ukrainian Festival, Welsh Week in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Plus: salsa dancing, the Tony-nominated “Grand Horizons,” The Fishtown Card Show and the Art and Jazz Festival in Delaware.

4 years ago

A person speaks and gestures at the front of a room, where students are sitting before blank easels.
Community

‘Safe place’: Art classes foster healing for Delaware cancer patients, English learners and people living with trauma

The Healing Through the Arts initiative began in 2017 with painting and drawing sessions for people with cancer.

4 years ago

Tanya Mayeux, who manages the StoopingPHL Instagram account, says her favorite thing she's ever found is a small ship in a glass bottle. (Elizabeth Estrada/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Everything is ‘Free 99’: How a Philly ‘stooping’ account finds new homes for trashed items

“It's kind of empowering to flip items or give them a new life,” said Tanya Mayeux. “I love the idea of keeping whatever we can out of the landfill.”

4 years ago

Listen 1:52
Wiz Khalifa performs in concert during ''The Decent Exposure Tour'' at the BB&T Pavilion on Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Camden, N.J. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Musikfest, Shakespeare in the ’burbs, Wiz Khalifa, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Plus: Daddy Daughter Dance, Jon Lovitz and Afrodanze! share the same weekend the Eagles make their preseason debut at the Linc.

4 years ago

Listen 5:07
A view of the Art Museum at sunset.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly culture on a budget: Where to find discounts on arts, nature, and history

Pointers for exploring the city without breaking the bank.

4 years ago

''Grumman Greenhouse'' has occupied Lenfest Plaza at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts since 2011. The sculpture features a Navy war plane that has been converted into a greenhouse. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Crash-landed in Philly 11 years ago, ‘Grumman Greenhouse’ is finally saying goodbye

After 11 years, the “beloved” sculpture by Jordan Griska, “Grumman Greenhouse,” is making way for a major John Rhoden retrospective at PAFA.

4 years ago

''Stray.'' (Annapurna Interactive)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Stray’: How a virtual orange tabby is helping real cats

A new video game sensation that features an adventurous feline has resonated with cat lovers and some of them are using the game to raise money for real cats.

4 years ago

Alicia Keys performs during the Platinum Jubilee concert taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, London, Saturday June 4, 2022, on the third of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. (Humphrey Nemar/Pool photo via AP)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

2nd Street Fest, Alicia Keys, BlackStar films, and Jerry Garcia tributes in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Aug. 4 - Aug. 7: The week’s events include a classical concert in N.J, the 2nd Street Festival in Philly, and a Lyle Lovett show in Delaware.

4 years ago

Listen 5:02
Would earning this sticker motivate you to vote? (Hudson Rowan)
NPR
Politics & Policy

A teenager’s ‘I Voted’ sticker design hits a nerve, and now everyone wants one

When 14-year-old Hudson Rowan drew his spider-robot-humanoid character for an "I Voted" sticker competition, he didn't realize just how far the illustration would travel.

4 years ago

''Attunement'' a monumental outdoor sculpture, captures the action of water droplets collecting and illustrates how water from the atmosphere transfers to larger bodies of water. It will be installed outside the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the Watershed Moment exhibit. (Rendering provided by the Academy of Natural Sciences)
Arts & Entertainment

Take me to the river: Academy of Natural Sciences sends visitors outside to the Schuylkill

“How to Get to the River” at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University wants visitors to experience Philly’s watershed first-hand.

4 years ago

The cast of ''The Spongebob Musical.'' (Upper Darby Summer Stage)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

The Black Keys, Shark Day, and SpongeBob in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

The weekend’s events in Philly, Del., and N.J. include Monster Trucks Live, Black Keys, and the East Passyunk Car Show and Street Fest.

4 years ago

Listen 4:43
Jasson Musson sits on his ''Pieta'' chair on a stage set filled with art allusions and an animatronic puppet named Ollie. The set was used to create Musson's satiric art history videos. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Jayson Musson explains art history as a sitcom at Philly’s Fabric Workshop and Museum

“His History of Art” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum traipses through history as a whimsical, crass TV show.

4 years ago

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